filamentary
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However, today's leading neuromorphic systems, often based on oxide materials and filamentary switching, still function like carefully engineered machines that imitate learning rather than materials that naturally contain it.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2026
Although these structures are lighter than the molecular clouds with filamentary structures, they are still quite similar in other crucial aspects.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025
That’s one of the plans that we have to test this idea of the stretching and elongation and alignment of these filamentary structures.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2023
It is likely that the filamentary distribution of galaxies and voids was built in near the beginning, before stars and galaxies began to form.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Other lowly plants propel themselves by means of a pair of filamentary protoplasmic threads, which vibrate actively, and are therefore called vibratile cilia.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
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